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  • the present invention relates to radio frequency (RF) repeaters. More particularly, the present invention relates to stability recovery system and method for an on-frequency RF repeater.
  • RF radio frequency
  • a mobile unit such as a cellular phone transmits and receives radio frequency (RF) signals to and from cell site base stations.
  • RF radio frequency
  • An on-frequency RF repeater receives, filters, and re-transmits the signal of interest at the same frequency and at a higher power level, thus extending base station coverage. If the product of the forward gain of the repeater and coupling between antennas is too high, the repeater will oscillate. In general, this is undesirable.
  • An internal feedback path may be used to compensate for the external coupling between antennas, allowing the forward gain of the repeater to be increased if required. This compensation is referred to as “echo cancellation.” However, if the forward gain is increased too high compared to the residual feedback coupling after echo cancellation, the repeater becomes unstable.
  • the following system and methods provide improved stability recovery for an RF repeater with adaptive echo cancellation.
  • embodiments of the invention provide a wireless repeater, including an input antenna for receiving an input signal, an output antenna for outputting an amplified signal, an amplifier for amplifying the received input signal and providing the output amplified signal to the output antenna, and an internal feedback path for adaptively cancelling an echo between the output antenna and the input antenna by implementing an adaptive algorithm employing a list having a plurality of list elements, each list element comprising one or more echo cancellation parameters and one or more repeater settings.
  • the input signal and the output amplified signal of the wireless repeater have the same frequency.
  • the list may include past successful echo cancellation parameters and corresponding repeater settings.
  • the repeater settings may include analog gain settings of the amplifier.
  • the internal feedback path further comprises a portion of a digital IF stage.
  • the digital IF stage may include a digital signal processor implementing the adaptive algorithm for dynamically updating the list and iteratively cancelling the echo.
  • the adaptive algorithm employed by the internal feedback path includes pruning the list for redundant elements.
  • the list is indexed using multi-dimensional attribute vectors.
  • Each list element may further include a region number indicating a region of an attribute space of which the element is a member.
  • the region number corresponds to a region marker in the attribute space, and the element is a member of the attribute space of a closest marker to the element.
  • the wireless repeater may further include means for monitoring a signal autocorrelation in the repeater, and means for detecting an echo within the repeater based on the monitored signal autocorrelation.
  • embodiments of the invention provide a method for recovering stability of a repeater in a wireless communication system.
  • the method includes providing a list having a plurality of list elements, each list element comprising one or more echo cancellation parameters and one or more associated repeater settings, detecting a current repeater setting, comparing the current repeater setting to those in the list, and selecting an echo cancellation parameter with the most similar repeater setting in the list.
  • the repeater settings are configured as a multi-dimensional attribute vector in an attribute space, and the attribute space is divided into a plurality of regions.
  • Each of the list elements may further include a region number indicating a region of the attribute space of which the element is a member. The region number corresponds to a region marker in the attribute space, and the element is a member of the attribute space of a marker closest to the element.
  • the method further includes pruning the list for redundant list elements based on a minimum distance between list elements.
  • embodiments of the invention provide a method for stabilizing a wireless repeater.
  • the method includes obtaining an autocorrelation of a signal in a signal path of the repeater, detecting an echo in the signal path based on the autocorrelation, providing a list of elements indicating past successful echo cancellation coefficients and associated repeater settings, and adaptively employing the echo cancellation coefficients to cancel the echo in the signal path.
  • the method further includes dynamically updating the list.
  • dynamically updating the list includes adding current repeater settings for successful echo cancellation to the list.
  • the method further includes obtaining distances between elements in the list, and dynamically updating the list further includes pruning the list based on the obtained distances. If instability is detected as determined from comparing the autocorrelation with a first predetermined threshold, the method may further include finding a nearest list element based on distances between the list elements and a current setting of the repeater, reducing the gain to the next lowest gain setting based on the nearest list element, retrieving an element from the list with echo cancellation coefficients corresponding to the next lowest gain setting, and pruning the retrieved element from the list. The method may further include successively reducing the gain using the remaining list elements until stability is restored or the list is empty. If the list becomes empty, the method further includes setting the echo cancellation coefficients to zero and reducing the gain until stability is restored.
  • the method further includes adding current repeater settings to the list.
  • the method may further include pruning the list by employing a minimum distance between elements within the list.
  • the distance is an attribute distance
  • pruning the list includes selecting an oldest element from the list, computing attribute distances from the selected oldest element to the remaining elements with a same region of the list, selecting a minimum attribute distance from the computed attribute distances and comparing the minimum attribute distance with a predetermined attribute distance threshold, and deleting an older element among an element pair having the minimum attribute distance if the minimum attribute distance is smaller than or equal to the predetermined attribute distance threshold until the whole list is checked.
  • the distance is an echo cancellation coefficient distance
  • pruning the list includes selecting an oldest element from the list, computing attribute distances from the selected oldest element to the remaining elements with a same region of the list, finding a pair of neighboring elements by selecting a minimum attribute distance from the computed attribute distances, computing a coefficient distance between the pair of neighboring elements, and deleting an older element among the pair of neighboring elements if the computed coefficient distance is smaller than or equal to a predetermined coefficient distance threshold until the whole list is checked.
  • pruning the list based on the obtained distances includes pruning the list for redundant elements among neighboring elements. If the obtained autocorrelation is between a first threshold above which the repeater is considered unstable, and a second predetermined threshold below which the echo is considered suppressed, the method may further include estimating an error in the echo cancellation coefficients, and updating the echo cancellation coefficients.
  • the method may further include reducing coupling between the input antenna and the output antenna by adaptively cancelling the echo, and increasing a forward gain of the repeater if the echo is suppressed.
  • the repeater settings are configured as an attribute space
  • the method further includes dividing the attribute space into a plurality of regions to avoid over pruning.
  • Each of the list elements may further include a region number indicating a region of an attribute space of which the element is a member. The region number corresponds to a region marker in the attribute space, and wherein the element is a member of the attribute space of a marker closest to the element.
  • a wireless communication system in another aspect of the invention, includes a base station, and an on-frequency repeater for extending the base station coverage.
  • the on-frequency repeater has an input antenna for receiving an input signal, an output antenna for outputting an amplified signal, an amplifier for amplifying the received input signal and providing the amplified output signal to the output antenna, and an internal feedback path for adaptively cancelling an echo between the input antenna and the output antenna and for stabilizing the on-frequency repeater.
  • the internal feedback path includes means for providing a list having a plurality of list elements, each list element comprising one or more echo cancellation parameters, and one or more repeater settings, means for monitoring a signal autocorrelation in the feedback path, and means for adaptively cancelling the echo based on the autocorrelation signal and the list.
  • the one or more repeater settings are configured as attribute vectors in an attribute space.
  • Each of the list elements may further include a region number indicating a region of the attribute space of which the list element is a member.
  • FIG. 1 is block diagram of a bi-directional on-frequency repeater with a digital intermediate frequency (IF) stage.
  • IF digital intermediate frequency
  • FIG. 2 is a block schematic drawing of one of the paths including the RF coupling between the input and output antennas.
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a first pruning process that enforces a minimum attribute distance between elements within the list.
  • FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a second pruning process that enforces a minimum coefficient distance between neighboring elements within the list.
  • FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating the list-based stability recovery algorithm for repeater with digital IF and echo cancellation.
  • FIG. 6 is a plot of regions defined by three region markers in a two-dimensional attribute space.
  • Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for stability recovery in an on-frequency RF repeater.
  • the repeater includes a digital intermediate frequency (IF) stage with internal digital echo cancellation.
  • the gain of the repeater is adjusted outside of the internal digital feedback loop of the echo cancellation, such as within the RF stages at the output side of the repeater.
  • the RF gain of the repeater is set low initially, and then increased to a maximum gain, so that the echo cancellation can adapt incrementally and maintain stability throughout.
  • a preferred embodiment employs an auto-correlation of the repeater signal (input signal plus echoes). The auto-correlation detects echoes reliably when the width of the auto-correlation of the input signal is less than the loop delay of the echo path.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 An on-frequency repeater in accordance with embodiments of the invention is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 .
  • a repeater 10 is typically bi-directional, as shown in FIG. 1 .
  • the down-link 10 a connects the base station 100 to the mobile 110
  • the up-link 10 b connects the mobile 110 to the base station 100 .
  • the repeater 10 may employ a frequency division duplex (FDD) implementation to separate the up- and down-link paths 10 a and 10 b .
  • FDD frequency division duplex
  • the up- and down-links 10 a and 10 b are separated in frequency requiring different local oscillators (LO).
  • LO local oscillators
  • a first duplexer 11 a allows the up- and down-links 10 a and 10 b to share the local area (input) antenna 12 (closest to the mobile 110 ).
  • a second duplexer 11 b and a circulator may be disposed adjacent the donor antenna 13 , for example, between a power amplifier (PA) and the donor antenna 13 .
  • the second duplexer 11 b allows the up- and down-links 10 a and 10 b to share the donor (output) antenna 13 (closest to the base station 100 ).
  • the up- and down-link stages perform substantially the same functions and may use the same components.
  • Bandpass filtering is performed at an intermediate frequency (IF) using filters 14 a and 14 b .
  • Compensation for the antenna coupling is performed in internal feedback paths within the up- and down-links 10 a and 10 b .
  • the internal feedback paths may include feedback compensation units within the digital IF stages comprising digital signal processors (DSP) 15 a and 15 b.
  • DSP digital signal processors
  • the block diagram shown in FIG. 2 provides more details of the feedback paths within the individual links, 10 a and 10 b . It also shows the coupling H between the input antenna 21 and the output antenna 22 .
  • the echo cancellation is implemented using feedback compensation in a DSP (as shown in FIG. 1 ).
  • the DSP-based compensation may be converted to analog, and possibly up-converted in frequency, then coupled to the IF or RF path.
  • the main components of the repeater as shown in FIG. 2 also include the low noise amplifier (LNA) 23 , down-converting mixer 24 , IF filter 25 , analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 26 , DSP (not shown), digital-to-analog converter (DAC) 27 , up-converting mixer 28 , and power amplifier (PA) 29 .
  • LNA low noise amplifier
  • ADC analog-to-digital converter
  • DAC digital-to-analog converter
  • PA power amplifier
  • additional components may be included in the repeater 10 .
  • first and second image reject filters may be included and located, e.g., between the LNA 23 and the down-converting mixer 24 , and between the up-converting mixer 28 and the power amplifier 29 , respectively.
  • a first duplexer 11 a is often found between the antenna 21 and LNA 23 .
  • a circulator and a second duplexer may be located, e.g., between the PA 29 and the output antenna 22 .
  • Additional gain stages may be present at
  • the input signal e.g., the in-coming signal without the effects of feedback
  • x(t) The Fourier transform of x(t)
  • X( ⁇ ) The output signal and its Fourier transform
  • y(t) and Y( ⁇ ) respectively.
  • the forward gain of the repeater is represented as the product of the three gain blocks: an analog input gain G in , a digital gain, G digital , controlled by the DSP, and an analog output gain G out .
  • G 0 G in G out .
  • the feedback path 150 is the product of the estimate feedback coupling block 151 , and the estimate of analog forward gain G est block 152 .
  • the input signal X( ⁇ ) although used in the following for modeling, usually cannot be directly measured because it is difficult to separate X( ⁇ ) from the output signal Y( ⁇ ) through the coupling path H. What can be measured usually is a signal v(t) within a signal path of the repeater, measured prior to the digital gain G digital .
  • the external feedback coupling is modeled as
  • the IF filter 25 shown in FIG. 2 is modeled as a delay element within the repeater. This approximation assumes that the passband of the IF filter 25 is flat and that its bandwidth is wider than the spectrum of the input signal of interest. If this assumption is not valid, the estimated feedback coupling, H est , will be the product of the actual coupling, H, and the frequency response of the filter. This does not affect the approach to echo cancellation; however, changes in the frequency response or gain of the filter will require re-estimation of the coefficients modeling the product of the feedback coupling and IF filter.
  • V ⁇ ( ⁇ ) G in 1 - G digital ⁇ [ G 0 ⁇ H ⁇ ( ⁇ ) - G est ⁇ H est ⁇ ( ⁇ ) ] ⁇ X ⁇ ( ⁇ ) . ( Eq . ⁇ 3 )
  • G 0 G in G out and G est approximately equals G in G out .
  • the input signal X( ⁇ ) usually cannot be measured because the input antenna 21 sums both X( ⁇ ) and the coupled signal from the output antenna 22 , H( ⁇ )Y( ⁇ ).
  • Statistical properties of the measured signal, v(t) may be used to estimate the feedback coupling.
  • the power spectrum of v(t) is used in the estimation and subsequent iterative search for the feedback coefficients, b n .
  • the auto-correlation can be computed from the power spectral density, (Eq. 4).
  • the auto-correlation for a loop delay T n is
  • the input signal can be described as an a-dependent process
  • the input signal (without echo) is uncorrelated to itself for delays greater than T a .
  • the echo caused by the feedback appears in the auto-correlation at multiples of the loop delay, T loop .
  • T loop the loop delay
  • the auto-correlation is used to monitor stability (maximum magnitude of delay taps associated with the echo) and to refine the feedback coefficient estimates associated with the dominant loop delays.
  • T a the minimum loop delay
  • the minimum loop delay exceeds T a , although excessively large delays (>10 ⁇ s) are discouraged for cellular systems.
  • the stability recovery method is then initiated.
  • the selection of the threshold, 0.35 in (Eq. 7) is not critical. Oscillations tend to occur at a single frequency which makes the autocorrelation of the signal v(t) very broad, much wider than that of the desired input signal x(t). As a result, there will be no shortage of delay taps greater than T a that fail the criterion specified by (Eq. 7) when an oscillation occurs or is imminent.
  • the echo cancellation is allowed to converge after each gain increase to a predetermined level, e.g., where the maximum correlation outside of the input correlation width is 0.032 ( ⁇ 15 dB below the average power).
  • An echo of ⁇ 15 dB creates a ripple in the power spectrum of about 3 dB.
  • the error in the feedback coefficient is estimated using
  • the estimate of the residual coefficients is the least mean square (LMS) solution of (Eq. 8).
  • the uncertainty in the estimate of H est G est is ⁇ ( H est ⁇ G est ) ⁇ G est ⁇ H est +H est ⁇ G est , (Eq. 12) where ⁇ H est and ⁇ G est are the uncertainties in H est and G est , respectively.
  • ⁇ H est and ⁇ G est are the uncertainties in H est and G est , respectively.
  • changes in the analog gain tend to introduce errors in the estimate of H est G est , which must reconverge.
  • the uncertainty in G est can be reduced by predicting the amount of analog gain change ( ⁇ G 0 /G o ) from changes in the control voltage of the VGA or VVA and updating using
  • the stability recovery algorithm uses past information to predict the echo cancellation setting, G est H est , to use with the reduced analog gain setting, G 0 .
  • a list is used as a data structure for storing past successful coefficient settings and correlating them with the analog gain settings.
  • Each element L(n) of the list contains an attribute vector P, a coefficient vector C, a region number r, and a time stamp t:
  • L ( n ) [ P ( n ) C ( n ) r ( n ) t ( n )] (Eq. 14)
  • P ( n ) [ p 1 ( n ) . . . p M ( n )]
  • C ( n ) [ c 1 ( n ) . . . c N ( n )].
  • the coefficient vector, C(n) contains the N taps of the finite impulse response (FIR) filter used for echo canceling (which is the time domain equivalent of G est H est ( ⁇ )).
  • the region number, r(n) indicates the region of the attribute space of which the element is a member. The use of the region number, r(n), may prevent over-pruning, as described in more detail below.
  • the time stamp, t(n) is used to distinguish the relative age of the elements within the list. It is possible to expand the attribute vector to multiple dimensions by including other relevant repeater parameters, in addition to the analog gain. This case is discussed in more detail below after the one-dimensional attribute case.
  • condition (Eq. 17) Whenever condition (Eq. 17) is detected, a new element is created and added to the list.
  • Redundant elements are identified using two measures: an attribute distance d attr and a coefficient distance d coef .
  • the coefficient distance measures the separation of elements n 1 and n 2 in the multi-dimensional coefficient space:
  • the first pruning process which enforces a minimum attribute distance between elements within the list, starts at step 30 .
  • the oldest element is selected.
  • d attr is computed from the oldest element to the remaining elements within the same region.
  • an element with minimum d attr min ⁇ d attr ⁇ , is selected.
  • d thr a predetermined threshold
  • the second pruning process which enforces a minimum coefficient distance between neighboring elements within the list, starts at step 40 .
  • the oldest element is selected.
  • d attr is computed from the selected oldest element to the remaining elements within the same region.
  • an element with minimum d attr min ⁇ d attr ⁇ , is selected. Such a selected element is the neighboring, i.e., nearest, element of the oldest element.
  • the coefficient distance, d coef is computed between the two elements. If d coef >d redundant , then in step 45 it is determined whether the entire list has been checked.
  • pruning is also used to remove any element whose analog gain attribute is greater than the present (i.e., current) analog gain.
  • the attribute space is divided into regions, denoted by r within (Eq. 14).
  • a set of region markers is specified that are distributed through the attribute space. For each element in the list, the distance is measured to each marker and the element is classified as a member of the region associated with the closet marker. Pruning is limited to redundant pairs within the same region, ensuring that the last element within a region will not be pruned.
  • over-pruning can be avoided by making the step size in the analog gain larger than the minimum attribute distance.
  • One method is to quantize the analog gain so that the separation between valid gain settings is larger than the minimum attribute distance. In such cases, the region number r(n) can be removed from the element definition, see (Eq. 14).
  • a list element is retrieved whenever the instability condition, (Eq. 7), is detected.
  • the current analog gain is measured and it becomes the current attribute vector.
  • the distances between current attribute vector and each of the list elements whose analog gain is lower are measured. The smallest distance is the nearest list element.
  • the analog gain setting is reduced to the value of the nearest list element's analog gain, and the associated coefficients from the list element are restored to the FIR filter.
  • the element is then pruned from the list. The system reverts to successively lower gain settings remaining within the list until stability is restored. This results in that the oscillation is terminated with the minimum possible gain loss. If the list becomes empty in the process, the FIR filter coefficients of the echo canceller are set to zero, and the analog gain is reduced as much as necessary to make G 0 H ( ⁇ ) ⁇ 1 (Eq. 20) for all frequencies ⁇ .
  • step 55 a nearest list element is found, which has a smallest attribute distance from the current settings of the repeater.
  • step 56 a lower gain and corresponding coefficients are loaded from the list.
  • step 57 the element is deleted from the list, and the process goes back to step 51 . This process may be repeated successively to reduce the gain using the remaining list elements until stability is restored, or until the list is empty. If the list becomes empty, the process proceeds to setting the echo cancellation coefficients to zero and reducing the forward gain until stability is restored.
  • step 58 the coefficient error ⁇ b k is measured, and the coefficients b k are updated in step 59 , then the process goes back to step 51 .
  • This list technique may further include the techniques of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/889,636 filed Jul. 12, 2004, and U.S. Pat. No. 6,985,706, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
  • the attribute vector preferably should become multi-dimensional. It is shown below that the list-based stability recovery scales up easily to multiple attribute dimensions.
  • the IF filter limits the bandwidth of the repeater. Its effect is modeled as part of the feedback coupling H est ( ⁇ ). Changing the IF or RF filtering adjusts the frequency response of the repeater. In general, this will have a direct effect on the echo cancellation coefficients because the filtering is performed outside of the cancellation loop.
  • the frequency response of the repeater can be altered using digital filtering. This may be done to narrow the bandwidth of the repeater to a specific channel or to equalize the power of signals within different channels received by the repeater. If the digital filtering is performed within the internal cancellation loop, the digital gain G digital becomes a function of frequency, i.e., G digital ( ⁇ ). Since G digital ( ⁇ ) is within the cancellation loop, it will not affect the coefficients directly, but it may affect the weighting used in the least square estimation which in turn may alter the coefficients. If the digital filtering is performed outside of the cancellation loop, the frequency response would be included within H est ( ⁇ ).
  • d marker ⁇ ( n 1 , r ) ⁇ k ⁇ ⁇ s k ⁇ [ p k ⁇ ( n 1 ) - p k ⁇ ( r ) ] 2 . ( Eq . ⁇ 22 )
  • the element n 1 is a member of the region r defined by the closet marker (minimum d marker (n 1 ,r)).
  • the markers and the regions they define in a two-dimensional attribute space are shown in FIG. 6 .
  • three regions are defined by three region markers 61 , 62 , and 63 in a two-dimensional attribute space having an axis p 1 and an axis p 2 .
  • the regions are separated by region boundaries 64 .
  • embodiments of the invention provide the list-based approach to stability recovery with a minimized amount of lost gain.
  • the stability of the repeater can be quickly recovered.
  • the self-generating features and the pruning process improves efficiency in cancelling echo and recovering stability of the repeater.

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